Connections

In an enterprise application scenario, multiple users vie for server resources such as message queues, enterprise servers, and database information. Today and tomorrow you will be focusing on the database server resources, and hence you will be studying database connections. Connections to the other server resources, such as message queues, will be covered in the coming days.

The common factor of most of these resources is their entry point, a database connection. To establish a database connection, you would need to access the database over the network. All operations requiring network access take up time and resources. These operations are very time-consuming and hence must be avoided as far as possible.

It can be clearly seen that, ...

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